[mythtv-users] mythmusic svn: libvisual projectm support

[Steven Adeff]

On 4/30/07, Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 4/29/07, Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've got all that installed, and I can see all the libvisual-plugins,
> > what I can't see in the list is the ProjectM visual. There was no
> > package for it for debian so I had to compile from source, and I'm
> > betting it didn't install it where the packaged version expects it so
> > its not being seen. I just don't know what needs to get done for this
> > to occur, so I'm hoping someone here knows?
> >
> >
>
> On Gentoo I just emerged the required packages and it all just worked :)
>
> Not sure if this helps at all because debian probably puts things in
> different places but this is what I have.
>
> There is the libvisual libraries that provide the projectM plugin  -
> actor_projectM.la and actor_projectM.so They are installed along with
> the others actors like actor_gforce.so. On Gentoo they are all in
> /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4/actor/.
>
> There is the actual projectM libraries  libprojectM.so.0.0.0,
> libprojectM.a, libprojectM.la. There's also a couple of links to the .so
> file called libprojectM.so and libprojectM.so.0. They are all in /usr/lib/
>
> There is also the projectM data directory at /usr/share/projectM/
>
> Looks like there is a config file in ~/.projectM. The config looks the
> same as the one in the share directory.
>
> There may be other stuff that I don't know about but that seem to be it.

ok, going the source route I had to compile libprojectM and install
it, then compile libvisual-projectm and install that (it found the
correct directories for everything), then I restarted mythfrontend,
went to the mythmusic setup and... there it i!s!!

yay, thanks guys! works great, now just need to figure out how to "tune" it =)
-- 
Steve
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